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The BBC Trust has hit the pause button on the proposed Project Canvas TV joint venture involving BT Group, the BBC and ITV, according to reports that say the overseer wants more information about the BBC's role. Project Canvas would allow viewers of the Freeview digital-TV set-top box to watch Web-based programming through their TVs.

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BT Group is joining with the U.K. broadcasters BBC and ITV on "Project Canvas," a plan to develop a TV-based set-top box that would offer "open" connections to online services as well as on-demand and HD programming from the country's "Freeview" lineup of networks. The plan needs to gain the favor of the regulator BBC Trust.